Boarding School

[Jog On]

I thought boarding school was all about fagging, compulsory rugby on cold winter mornings, military drill on the playground, freezing cold classrooms, latin and classics homework for 4 hours a night, vile school dinners and being bullied by the Head Boy or Matron and being caned for any trivial offence.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

Which one did you go to? Sounds like I went ot the wrong one!

 

[oracleslave]

I thought boarding school was all about fagging, compulsory rugby on cold winter mornings, military drill on the playground, freezing cold classrooms, latin and classics homework for 4 hours a night, vile school dinners and being bullied by the Head Boy or Matron and being caned for any trivial offence.

All of the above is correct according to what I experienced. Excellent for independence, character and self-discipline development.

 

[Bear]

I thought boarding school was all about fagging, compulsory rugby on cold winter mornings, military drill on the playground, freezing cold classrooms, latin and classics homework for 4 hours a night, vile school dinners and being bullied by the Head Boy or Matron and being caned for any trivial offence.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

That's why I raised the topic Denny - it's amazing how many people think that!

 

[IR35 Avoider]

I thought boarding school was all about fagging, compulsory rugby on cold winter mornings, military drill on the playground, freezing cold classrooms, latin and classics homework for 4 hours a night, vile school dinners and being bullied by the Head Boy or Matron and being caned for any trivial offence.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

I went, and this description is a lot closer to my experience than those other posters who seem to have enjoyed it.

To comment on one random aspect, compulsory rugby for anyone without a doctors note confining them to a wheelchair: it genuinely never occurred to me at any stage that rugby (or sport in any form) was supposed to be enjoyable. Rugby was a substitute for warfare until one was old enough to go into the army: it was about duty, winning for the school, etc. I'm only half-joking when I say that I suspect that if I had shown any signs of enjoying it I would have been caned for not taking it seriously enough.

 

[Denny]

Excellent for independence, character and self-discipline development.

Aren't they euphemisms for loneliness, an eccentric nature and a desire to self flaggelate?

 

[oracleslave]

Aren't they euphemisms for loneliness, an eccentric nature and a desire to self flaggelate?

No.

HTH

 

[Bear]

Aren't they euphemisms for loneliness, an eccentric nature and a desire to self flaggelate?

No

They are all things which help you get on, be successful in what you do and enjoy yourself

 

[Board Game Geek]

Day boarder. So went home everyday, since we lived near the school.

At one point I did want to go to a proper boarding school, since I rather fancied the adventure.

Then when I was about 10, my parents bought me a home computer (Atari 400) and after that, I didn't want to board, because I wouldn't be allowed to stay up as long as I liked playing games every night or all day during the weekends.

 

[Pinto]

I thought boarding school was all about fagging, compulsory rugby on cold winter mornings, military drill on the playground, freezing cold classrooms, latin and classics homework for 4 hours a night, vile school dinners and being bullied by the Head Boy or Matron and being caned for any trivial offence.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

Mine was a day school as well as boarding, and it was co-educational giving us a chance to practice a few social skills . There was a compulsory 2 hour daily activity, but it didn't have to be sport. The classrooms were very warm and there was no latin, or classics. I admit though, it took me a while to get used to the food, but once I adapted to the english tastes, everything was devoured with gusto.

As Bear says, a lot of people have an outdated view of life in a boarding school.

 

[Denny]

Am I the only one on here who went to a comprehensive?

Thankfully, it was a very good one, and more like a grammar school in terms of academic standards, school ethos and so on. I did well there on the whole and enjoyed it.